About blue

blue is a music composition environment for Csound, written in Java, and
available for use on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. It allows doing everything
one can do in Csound as well as builds on top of it to offer the following
features:

SoundObjects are the building blocks within blue's score timeline.
SoundObjects can be lists of notes, algorithmic generators, python
script code, Csound instrument definitions, PianoRolls, Pattern Editors,
Tracker interfaces, and more. These soundObjects may be text based or
GUI-based as well.

Score timeline allows for visual organization of SoundObjects

Polyobject are objects which hold other SoundObjects, and have timelines
in themselves. Working within them on their timelines and outside of
them on the parent timeline helps organize and understand the concepts
of objective time and relative time between different objects.

The soundOject library allow for instantiating multiple copies of
a SoundObject, which allows for editing the original object and updating
all copies.

NoteProcessors allow for modifying the SoundObjects score results, i.e.
adding 2 to all p4 values, multiplying all p5 values by 6, etc. These
NoteProcessors can be chained together to manipulate and modify objects
to achieve things like transposition, serial processing of scores, and
more.

The Orchestra manager organizes instruments and functions
as an instrument librarian.

Graphical instruments and effects that help to increase musical workflow.

A mixer system and user-interface to easily connect instruments and effects
together that follows a conventional mixer pardigm.

Syntax hilighting of Csound code.

SoundObject freezing - free up CPU cycles by pre-rendering objects

Microtonal support using scales defined in the Scala scale format, including
a microtonal PianoRoll, Tracker, NoteProcessors, and more.

blueLive - work with soundObjects in realtime to experiment with musical
ideas or performance.